Insects: List of 20+ Names of Insects in English

Insects! This lesson shows you a list of insect names in English with the picture. You should practice with the example sentences to help you remember those words easily.

Insects

List of Insects

  • Ant
  • Aphid
  • Bee
  • Beetle
  • Butterfly
  • Caterpillar
  • Cicada
  • Cockroach
  • Dragonfly
  • Flea
  • Fly
  • Grasshopper
  • Horse-fly
  • Ladybug
  • Mantis
  • Mosquito
  • Moth
  • Termite
  • Tick
  • Wasp
  • Whitefly

Insects with Examples

Learn the names of insects with example sentences.

  • The ant is the most industrious animal; however, it is the most taciturn one.
  • Like an aphid, then, the caterpillar employs ants as bodyguards, but it goes one better.
  • He was stung by a bee.
  • The beetle is thought to be a European import.
  • Do you think the butterfly is a type of insect?
  • These secretions are used by the caterpillar as a defence.
  • Jim looked with distaste at the cockroach in his soup.
  • The dragonfly is splendidly preserved on the flat bedding plane of a limestone.
  • I must have been bitten by a flea, my arms are itchy.
  • Was the fly alive or dead?
  • Even when she was knee-high to a grasshopper.
  • I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee.
  • A grasshopper is big to a ladybug.
  • mantis cannot stop the wheel of a cart.
  • A single mosquito can infect a large number of people.
  • The moth has been a great threat to the farm.
  • The termite inspector can point out some problem areas.

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Peters
Peters
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